Configuration Management — Technology Wiki

Overview

The practice of systematically managing and maintaining the consistency of system configurations.

An open-source automation tool for configuration management, application deployment, and task automation.

A configuration management tool that automates the provisioning and management of infrastructure.

A configuration management tool using Ruby-based scripts to automate infrastructure setup and maintenance.

An approach where infrastructure components are never modified after deployment but replaced entirely with updated versions.

An operational framework using Git repositories as the single source of truth for declarative infrastructure and applications.

A method of tracking requests as they flow through distributed systems to diagnose latency and failure points.

A system design approach that ensures a certain degree of operational continuity during a given measurement period.

The average time between system failures, measuring reliability and availability.

The process of determining the production capacity needed to meet changing demands for an organisation's products.

A target value for a service level indicator that defines acceptable service performance.

A set of practices combining software development and IT operations to shorten the development lifecycle and deliver continuous value.

A repository for storing, managing, and distributing container images.

An automated workflow that builds, tests, and deploys software changes from development to production.